Our Schools...Our Excellence Community Compact

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Community Compact
With the goal of engaging North Baton Rouge residents, education leaders and community
stakeholders interested in improving outcomes for children attending public schools in North
Baton Rouge, the Better Baton Rouge Education Cluster (BBREC) has hosted public events
over the course of a year. The purpose of these engagements was to raise awareness of and
demand for excellent schools in North Baton Rouge through informed consensus around a
collective definition of “excellence.”
A total of approximately 500 community members participated in the conversations, galvanizing
around the theme, “Our Schools...Our Excellence!” This theme underscores a fundamental
belief in the ultimate responsibility for the quality of schools being deeply rooted in the
communities they serve.
In an effort to advance the understanding and acceptance of this responsibility, the BBREC
facilitated vigorous dialogue on the general best-practices of “excellent” schools. As a result of
this process, the following mandates were identified as essential to initiating authentic, positive
change in North Baton Rouge k-12 public schools:

1. ACHIEVE STUDENT SUCCESS
From the “top down,” everyone is focused on student success.
• The responsibility of every adult in the school building is to help each student achieve
their maximum potential.
• The goal for all students is the opportunity to find success in college or career and every
grade, from kindergarten to senior year, is structured around preparing every student for
this goal.
• The culture of every school is a “whatever it takes” approach and pursuit of innovations
in the best interest of the students.

2. RECRUIT, REWARD & EMPOWER PROVEN TALENT
Every school has an outstanding principal and every classroom has an outstanding
teacher.
• Schools have a clear focus and plan to attract and retain principals and teachers who
have demonstrated ability in improving student achievement and development.
• Schools are led by administrators who are accountable for producing excellent results
for students.
• Schools support leaders who have the flexibility to identify, hire and reward those who
produce the best results for students.


3. ENGAGE PARENTS
There is a commitment to inviting parents from all backgrounds in supporting their
child’s education.
• Throughout the schools and community there are high expectations for parents and their
involvement in their children’s education.
• Faculty and staff go to great lengths in providing a variety of opportunities for parents to
engage and they take responsibility for ensuring high levels of parental involvement.
• Principals actively solicit parental feedback and input regarding important decisions
involving the school through clear, regular and thoughtful communications.

4. SUPPORT STUDENTS
Schools provide academic, behavioral and social support to both students and their
families.
• There is a shared understanding for the profound connection between academic
success and the student’s physical, emotional and social well-being.
• Schools and communities act in partnership to identify and acquire needed resources to
support both students and their families.
• When basic resources do not exist, schools apply the “whatever it takes” approach to
meet the needs of students and their families.

The Our Schools…Our Excellence! Community Compact proposes these four critical mandates
and supporting tenets as the beginning of a formal commitment by the participants who helped
create them to embrace and advance their actualization. This compact also serves as a basis
for seeking the endorsement of its mandates through specific actions by external partners and
fellow collaborators. All signatories attest to their individual pledge in both upholding and
implementing the mandates of the Our Schools…Our Excellence! Community Compact.

Our Schools…Our Excellence is a BETTER initiative. BETTER is a program of MetroMorphosis.
The initiative was created to develop a core of community stakeholders, educators, and
residents
invested in educational reforms and actively participate in the process. To learn more about
MetroMorphosis and its programs visit http://metromorphosis.net

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